Bye Bye America is the story of an unusual journey, generated from discussions Schütte had with émigrés he met while walking along the boardwalk in Brighton Beach. The film depicts characters whose fate is to search for a homeland, with no great fuss about it but with laconic humour and an often fairy-tale ambience.  Isaak, his friend Moshe, and Moshe's wife, Genovefa, leave New York and set off for Poland. The three of them are all in the same boat, get stranded in Germany, celebrate Christmas in Berlin, and finally end up in Poland. But everything's different there. Isaak finds a wife and Genovefa gets her own flat. At the end, everybody's happy for a moment: some in Gdansk, some in Brighton Beach.